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Apple reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $95.4B, vs. $94.6B est., China sales down 2% YoY to $16B, vs. $16.83B est., and authorizes a $100B share buyback program — Services revenue reaches new all-time high — EPS sets March quarter record … The Company posted quarterly revenue of $95.4 billion …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q2: iPhone up 2% YoY to $46.84B, vs. $45.84B est., Mac up 7% to $7.95B, iPad up 15% to $6.4B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 5% to $7.52B — Apple reported second fiscal-quarter earnings Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, but the company's closely-watched Services division came up light versus estimates.
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
On its Q2 call, Apple said that a “majority” of iPhones sold in the US in Q3 will come from India while “nearly all” of its other devices will come from Vietnam — Company's plan for the June quarter follows its 5% earnings increase for the January-to-March period| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $26.65B, a new record but below $26.7B est. — The company overall topped Wall Street estimates for the quarter as investors awaited word on how President Trump's tariffs might hurt its business.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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| Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $155.67B, vs. $155.04B est., operating income up 20% YoY to $18.4B, and forecasts Q2 operating income below estimates — - Net sales increased 9% to $155.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $143.3 billion in first quarter 2024.| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
Trump's World Liberty Financial says Abu Dhabi's MGX fund is making a $2B investment in Binance using World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin, raising ethical concerns — A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president's son …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €530M for illegally sending user data to China, ordering a halt to EU data transfers in six months if protections aren't guaranteed — Irish privacy watchdog says app failed to protect user data sent to China — Ireland's data-privacy watchdog fined TikTok …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 61% YoY to $392M, vs. $370M est., global daily active uniques up 31% to 108.1M, Q2 guidance above est.; RDDT jumps 5%+ after hours — Reddit reported first-quarter revenue on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations, and issued better-than-expected guidance.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates its App Store Guidelines to comply with a US judge's April 30 injunction, including allowing app developers to link to external payments in the US — Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with yesterday's injunction handed down in its legal case with Epic Games.
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Atlassian reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.29B est., and a net loss of $70.8M, vs. a $12.8M net profit a year ago; TEAM drops 16%+ after hours — Shares in Atlassian Corp. were down nearly 18% in after-hours trading today after the Australian collaboration software company posted … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A California man pleads guilty to illegally accessing Disney's Slack channels and stealing 1.1TB of data in 2024; he later posed as hacktivist group “NullBulge” — A California man who used the alias “NullBulge” has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney's internal Slack channels … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block reports Q1 revenue down 3% YoY to $5.77B, vs. $6.2B est., gross profit up 9% to $2.3B, below est., issues weak profit guidance; XYZ drops 18%+ after hours — WATCH NOW — Block reported first-quarter results that missed Wall Street expectations on Thursday and issued a disappointing outlook.
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $897M, gross transaction volume up 10% to $9.1B, forecasts Q2 adjusted EBITDA above est.; CART jumps 4%+ after hours — Instacart posted its strongest order growth since 2022 for the first quarter and projected better-than-expected earnings for the current period …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Spotify says it submitted an iOS app update letting US customers use other payment options beyond Apple's; Patreon earlier said it would do the same — The streaming company has already submitted an update to its iOS app following the major ruling in Epic Games v. Apple.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to $2.27B, vs. $2.26B est., Gross Booking Value up 7% to $24.5B, forecasts Q2 revenue below est.; ABNB drops 5%+ after hours — Airbnb reported results for the first quarter that were mostly in line with estimates, but the company issued a disappointing revenue forecast for the current period.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.02B vs. $1.01B est., a net loss of $27.4M, compared to $50.9M a year ago; ROKU drops 5%+ after hours — Roku turned in first-quarter 2025 earnings that edged out Wall Street forecasts and announced a $185 million deal to buy Frndly TV … | Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Temu appears to have removed all products in the US version of its online store that ship directly from China to US consumers, confusing suppliers and customers — The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “Local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end …
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| Lindsay Clark / The Register: |
Redis, which makes the Redis value-key database, returns its main system to open-source license AGPL, after criticism in 2024 for moving to a dual-license model — New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers — Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Aurora launches its commercial driverless trucking service, making deliveries between Dallas and Houston, and plans to expand to El Paso and Phoenix this year — After a slight delay, the company's autonomous trucks are finally hauling freight. … The company's Class 8 trucks …
More: New Atlas, Aurora, Aurora Innovation, Inc., Forbes, Dallas Innovates, and CNN
| Ahmed Hagagy / Reuters: |
Kuwait cracks down on crypto miners for being a “major” cause of blackouts; energy consumption in the Al-Wafrah region fell by 55% after the crackdown — Kuwait has launched a crackdown on cryptocurrency miners it accuses of being a “major” cause of a power crisis that has led to blackouts …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
The Google search antitrust trial is effectively a fight about AI's future, as lawyers and rivals argue Google's monopoly could make it the dominant AI player — A federal judge issued a landmark ruling last year, saying that Google had become a monopolist in internet search.
More: The Economic Times
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
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